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Enterprise Strategy Consultant (f/m/x)

IBM

IBM

Zürich, Switzerland
Posted on Feb 2, 2026
Introduction

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients the around world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including IBM Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Enterprise Strategy Consultant at IBM, you'll be working closely with clients and their customers to understand their pain points, bringing together IBM's unique capabilities across enterprise strategy, AI, innovation, design, data analytics, cognitive computing and technology platforms to develop and deliver high-impact transformation programs. Leveraging a growth mindset, you're ready and willing to deliver business value, wherever needed.

The key responsibilities will include:

  • Support the development and implementation of enterprise strategies across different business functions (e.g., operations, finance, HR, technology), including value orchestration across business and technology domains.

  • Apply AI-enabled and data-driven approaches to help clients shape and accelerate their strategic and transformation agendas.

  • Develop and structure business cases for strategic initiatives, including value, cost, risk and benefit assessments.

  • Design and apply prioritization frameworks to support portfolio, initiative and investment decisions.

  • Contribute to client engagements using the IBM Garage Experience to co-create, prototype and scale innovative solutions.

  • Conduct market research, data analysis and benchmarking to identify trends, risks and opportunities.

  • Prepare presentations, reports and strategic recommendations for senior stakeholders.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on client projects and internal initiatives.

  • Contribute to project management activities, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and within scope.

  • Continuously learn and apply new consulting frameworks, tools and methodologies.

    Switzerland

    What we offer:

    • Individual career path
    • Access to countless trainings and certification offerings
    • A knowledge sharing culture
    • An environment where you are actively contributing your ideas
    • The possibility to work in projects in one of the largest IT companies

    Switzerland

Required education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Management, or a related field.

  • Proven capability in enterprise strategy development and strategic problem structuring.

  • Strong understanding of AI and emerging technologies and their application to business transformation.

  • Experience or strong exposure to value orchestration, aligning business, technology and operating model levers.

  • Ability to build robust business cases for transformation and strategic initiatives.

  • Hands-on experience applying prioritization frameworks and decision support models.

  • Experience in defining and managing KPI frameworks and value tracking.

  • Exposure to, or experience working with, the IBM Garage Experience or similar co-creation and agile transformation approaches.

  • Powerful communication and storytelling skills, with an ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply.

  • Ability to apply logic to solve ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions.

  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and work effectively in an intense team environment, able to build direct working relationships across all levels of IBM and client teams.

  • Fluent in English and German, written and spoken.

  • Swiss / EU nationality or valid Swiss work permit.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Passion to understand the applications of emerging technologies and adapt modern approaches and innovative solutions to client problems
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities, including the desire to take ambiguous problems and deliver creative and well-structured solutions; as well as applying deep analytical skills to ensure recommendations are informed by data and insights
  • Highly motivated, with clear evidence of drive and significant achievements

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.